Les températures record de la mer dans l’Atlantique alimentent les ouragans et les migrations.
Tropical Storm Debby moved slowly over South Carolina the week of Aug. 5, dumping up to 22 inches of rain in some regions, causing widespread flooding, overwhelming the sewage system and reminding residents of sewage overflow issues that have plagued West Ashley communities — especially Donahue Drive — for decades.
From the archives, this story about the C-17 in The Post and Courier in 1995 is the definitive account of its early development.
Ejecting from a fighter jet is a violent event that happens in a few blinks of the eye. But the aftermath can be even more challenging, one pilot says of his experience.
Few people know more about the F-35's development than Tom Burbage, former executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program and co-author of the recent book "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II."
A $150 million jet went missing over South Carolina after its pilot ejected over North Charleston, creating a mystery that raises new question about the stealth fighter's role as the U.S. military's most important combat aircraft of the present and future.
The state Department of Corrections has hired at least 25 medical workers with histories of board-ordered sanctions, a Post and Courier analysis found.
The law gives the government authority to collect toxicity data for every chemical it hopes to regulate. But even today, of thousands of known PFAS, only a fraction have been studied.
Chemical suppliers for lithium-ion batteries have been accused of misleading regulators, hiding information and contaminating communities while making related products.
A one-of-a-kind project in the Francis Marion National Forest is trying to use sprinklers to help save the eastern black rail, a mysterious bird that enthusiasts consider among the most challenging to spot.
King Street, Charleston's tourism hotspot, is full of restaurants, bars and club. See what happens when 50,000 people pile into the nightlife district for a weekend.
South Carolina lightning bugs rely on wetlands and damp environments to survive. Those habitats are being pressured by a growing population and changing ecosystem.
Deveaux Bank is one of the nation's most important way stations for migratory birds, but more intense and frequent storms have put much of it under water. The same squeeze affects other state-owned rookeries, and DNR has made them off limits during nesting season. But not Deveaux.
Power companies and lawmakers are pushing hard for a new gas-fired power plant, likely at a site along the Edisto River. But the push carries echoes of what happened before the failed plan to build the V.C. Summer nuclear station north of Columbia, a project that set $9 billion on fire.
Microplastics are a pervasive issue in bodies of water across the globe. A new project reveals how much of the pollutant is present in Charleston's water bodies.
In 1970, the world's first experimental deep-sea mining operation took place 130 miles off the South Carolina coast. Scientists recently went back. Their shocking photos, released on Feb. 19, come just months before the international seabed could open up to commercial mining.
The program's disorganization and the absence of a clear strategy has caused some people to question how committed city officials were to curbing gun violence.
A deep-sea coral province 100 miles southeast of Charleston was recently confirmed as the largest known reef of its kind. Warming oceans could damage its ecosystem.
The Brantley Thomas embezzlement scandal rocked Berkeley County, where Thomas steered the school systems' finances for decades — and stole $1.3 million from taxpayers. But a deep look by The Post and Courier's Uncovered project reveals more to the story.
A South Carolina exploration company’s revelation that it may have found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane generated a burst of optimism that one of aviation’s greatest mysteries may be solved — and deep skepticism among some longtime searchers who say there’s no way it could be Earhart’s plane.
Amelia Earhart search yields possible clue, thanks in part to advances in underwater drones and more sophisticated sonar.
A new South Carolina ocean exploration company said it recently discovered an object in the South Pacific with a shape and size similar to Amelia Earhart's plane.
A battle between endangered bats and coastal developers revs up in the South. Is the problem bigger than bats? Experts point to history as a sign of what's to come.
The lawsuit comes amid an ongoing national debate over fees some hospital trauma wards charge, markups that health researchers have found especially prevalent at for-profit hospital chains such as HCA, the nation's largest.
The JMS Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia, is the nation’s largest burn unit, but its future is in jeopardy after the death of Fred Mullins, a burn doctor who helped drive the center’s national expansion.
After being stripped of his medical license, Doug Smith has made millions off addiction, most recently as the operator of a telehealth drug treatment network. Here's what we know about him and the serious allegations swirling around his business dealings.
Doug Smith lost his medical license in 2009 for unsafely prescribing pain pills. Then his lab to test for traces of drugs in pain patients' urine was shut down by the feds. Now, the walls may be closing in on his telemedicine addiction treatment business.
The inside story about a man who nearly died in an explosion in Spartanburg, how it led to a $30 million medical bill and an enduring lesson in the power of family.
West Ashley teacher and professional Muay Thai boxer Anna Toole battled for a green belt from the World Boxing Council. Cinching the title would effectively name Toole the best 115-pound female Muay Thai boxer on the continent.
Disaster flooding could displace nearly a thousand Charleston homeowners in the coming decade. To plan ahead, city officials decided to look back — searching for residents who, years ago, left their homes with the city's first FEMA buyouts.
South Carolina was the architect of prosecuting pregnant women for drug use. A positive test still can set in motion a process that lands women behind bars, childless and lacking support, a Post and Courier investigation found.
The Post and Courier visuals team spent 24 hours on Folly Beach to capture what happens in this seaside town on a typical day.
Some think it's a nickname, but Smiley happens to be this Folly Beach UPS driver's actually name.
South Carolina researchers detected toxic PFAS in the ovaries of 36 women at a fertility clinic. Did those women have a right to know their own chemical exposure?
In south end neighborhoods, landlords own up to 80 percent of the houses.
Winning the World Boxing Council's green belt is a chance for Anna Toole to prove herself as a top female professional athlete in a sport with so few of them. It's a chance to put Charleston Muay Thai and Boxing on the map. And it’s a chance to pave the way for other fighters at the female-dominated gym to follow in her footsteps.
Charleston's Spring-Fishburne Drainage Improvement Project won't see its three giant pumps installed until late 2025, another delay in one of the city's key flood-prevention pushes.
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Saint-Louis, Senegal, is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to rising seas. With a new sea wall, the city also offers lessons for other cities, like Charleston, considering similar barriers.
Here's how dust from the Sahara Desert impacts South Carolina, including its role in the formation of hurricanes.
Partez à la rencontre de scientifiques sénégalais qui savent grâce aux sciences et à leurs expériences personnelles à quel point les problèmes climatiques en Afrique nous concernent tous et toutes.
Meet climate researchers in Senegal who know through science and personal experience how global warming there affects the entire world, including hurricanes that strike South Carolina.
La poussière saharienne a un impact important sur la survie ou la mort des ouragans.
Saharan dust plays a big role in whether hurricanes form off Africa — and strike the United States. Climate change is affecting this important hurricane nursery.
In Georgia and the Carolinas, lithium is quickly becoming king: it pushes up through the ground, oozes through recyclers’ shredding machines and will soon travel through the backwoods on aging rail lines to be bolted into the cars of the future.
How climate change is threatening S.C. septic tanks from below.
Confederate troops stationed at Fort Johnson famously fired at American soldiers based at Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War. Today, both forts are threatened by sea level rise, including a 5-foot tall Confederate monument with a painful past.